GOP operative on TODAY: lack of Republican vision for America no longer "matters"

[derby378]

Republican strategist and former White House communications director Nicole Wallace appeared on NBC's TODAY Show this morning along with Harold Ford, Jr. to comment on the corruption charges levelled against Democratic representatives Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters. They also discussed a supposed "anti-incumbent" mood among American voters.

When Ford stated that Republican Party leadership has not been able to "articulate a clear and compelling message for how they will change things" in America for the better, Wallace responded, "I'm not sure it matters."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38637465#38637465

In other words, the Party of No is apparently content with being the Party of No Ideas. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

[eleny]

1. Now they'll get their way by doing nothing

[derby378]

3. Or worse yet, trying Obama for imaginary crimes in a kangaroo court

I suspect the underlying but eternally unspoken charge is BPOTUSWB.

[Uben]

2. Give them what they want.........

.....in November, when it comes to republicans, vote "NO"!

[BlueIdaho]

4. And that is their biggest weakness...

We need to attack them on that point. With 9.5% unemployment, states and cities closing libraries, firing cops and teachers, and turning off streetlights - don' t you think America deserves to know how the republican tea party plans on fixing things?

If they drag out the same old failed trickle down economics, cutting taxes, and deregulation, we say... "Isn't that how we got in this mess in the first place?"

[derby378]

6. That's Wallace's point - it doesn't matter

Doesn't matter that teachers are getting laid off or that your local public library has been shut down. We've got Sarah Palin!

[BlueIdaho]

8. It won't matter to the true believers

But true believers do not an election make. I think it does matter to the vast majority of Americans that do not follow politics daily.

[tom_paine]

14. Now now, they don't want to sound like a professional lefty fucking retard, do they?

Glenn Beck might call them a name and then they'd have to fire someone.

It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

It has happened so many times on so many issues, our Democratic "Leadership" are either the most contemptible cowardls since the German Social Democrats of 1933 or they're "half in the bag" (if not more of the Corporate Oligarchy that truly runs this nation behind the curtain of the Reality Dumbshow.

Doesn't matter which "why" is closer to true, the result is all that matters.

[RainDog]

5. Republicans aren't part of the reality-based community

Rahm and Gibbs set their sites on the wrong people.

From the Republican Party's own mouth:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." - Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine

Republicans don't need no stinkin' reality.

[Winterblues]

7. He may very well be correct.

If Democrats don't start informing the American people of What's what it won't matter one bit. I have been hearing Republican ads on the radio for weeks now and have yet to hear a single Democratic Ad. There are only a couple of months left and the Right has been brainwashing for quite some time now without anyone offering a counter viewpoint.

[derby378]

9. It was disconcerting to hear Ford agree with Wallace on-camera

We need spokespeople for the Democratic Party who are made of stronger stuff than that.

[Winterblues]

10. To me it was an acknowledgment that the American people are flat out stupid

That it doesn't matter whether Republicans have any ideas for America or not but many will vote for them anyway. It was in no way a slam against the Democrats or about Democrats in any fashion.

[derby378]

12. First rule of campaigning: never belittle the intelligence of your likely voters

Voters do not take lightly to being insulted by their candidates. A candidate can challenge, inspire, and even rile up voters, but openly referring to voters as stupid is not a good idea. This is essentially what Wallace did, and even though she's not a candidate, we all know what team she's rooting for.

Agreeing with Wallace on this point did not look good on Ford, IMHO.

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. They control all aspects of American society and business.

They control the schools, the banks, the military, the intelligence, the Congress, the Presidency, the medical industry, energy, media and the history books. Message is irrelevant.
On edit: See my sig.

[gulliver]

13. They are the Party of Yes, Yes, Yes when it comes to Bush

They didn't have any ideas then either. They just did whatever Bush wanted. Now they want to do it again.